Atelier
635 West 42nd Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $650,000 to $14,100,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 46
  • Apartments for Rent: 46
Looking a bit like a finely tooled, large, rectangular key with alternating notches to open some great vault in the sky, this sleek and svelte slab tower is the best looking of the Far West 42nd Street residential projects.

It has a cool plan that its architect, Costas Kondylis, maintains "recalls the bow of a great ship interpreted all in glass (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at Atelier 635 West 42nd Street


Trump International Hotel & Tower
1 Central Park West


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Central Park West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $835,000 to $18,000,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 12
  • Apartments for Rent: 3
Located at one of the city's premier gateway sites at the southwestern corner of Central Park, this sparkling and impressive, mixed-use tower was converted from a rather drab office building.

The converter was Donald J. Trump and his partners, Daniel M. Galbreath and the G. E. Pension Trust.

The office building had been the 45-story Gulf & Western Building that had (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at Trump International Hotel & Tower 1 Central Park West


The Orion
350 West 42nd Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $699,999 to $2,235,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 8
  • Apartments for Rent: 10
One of the famous 1930s photographs of Manhattan shows a phalanx of tall towers marching across 42nd Street: the Chrysler Building, the Chanin Building, 500 Fifth Avenue, the Bush Terminal Building, the Chandler Building and the McGraw-Hill Building.

The McGraw-Hill Building was not the tallest of this group but it was then the furthest west and its green façade and horizontal (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at The Orion 350 West 42nd Street


Jumeirah Essex House
160 Central Park South


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,290,000 to $8,995,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 8
  • Apartments for Rent: 14
This 40-story, Art Deco tower would be one of the most distinguished buildings along Central Park South were it not for its large rooftop sign that proclaims its name. The sign unfortunately has been one of the city's skyline blights for decades.

The hotel, which was designed by Frank Grad, was originally called the Park Tower and then the Seville Towers.

In (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at Jumeirah Essex House 160 Central Park South


Worldwide Plaza
350 West 50th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $460,000 to $2,350,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 7
  • Apartments for Rent: 8
The residential portion, containing 455 condominium apartments, of this major development is one of the most distinguished in midtown.

A 38-story tower in mid-block at 393 East 49th Street faces on a very attractive plaza that separates it from the 50-story office building at 825 Eighth Avenue, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, that has an illuminated crown and is (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at Worldwide Plaza 350 West 50th Street


100 United Nations Plaza


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Turtle Bay/United Nations
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $729,000 to $1,825,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 3
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
This dramatic spike in the east midtown skyline is one of the most stunning residential towers erected in the city after World War II.

Designed by Der Scutt and Schuman, Lichtenstein, Claman & Efron for developer Anthony Albanese, this 52-story, serrated monolith is sharply highlighted by its steep angled top: the architects shot an arrow in the air.

The tower, which (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at 100 United Nations Plaza


Milan
300 East 55th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Midtown East
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,625,000 to $2,480,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 3
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
This very sleek and stunning apartment tower rises on the former site of El Morocco, the glamorous nightclub that was famous for its celebrity clientele and its blue-and-white zebra-striped banquettes.

For several decades, El Morocco and the Stork Club were the most elegant and exclusive nightclubs in the city in the pre-disco era.

This 32-story tower was designed by Peter Claman of (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at Milan 300 East 55th Street


The Oxford
422 East 72nd Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,350,000 to $1,825,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
When Sotheby's moved from Madison Avenue to York Avenue this area was pretty much the boonies, dominated by low-rise residential structures of mixed quality and an ambulance alley for the hospitals along York Avenue to the south.

The neighborhood changed pretty quickly and now sports several genuine "luxury" residential high-rise buildings near the East River. This 44-story tower is the (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at The Oxford 422 East 72nd Street


111 Central Park North


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Harlem
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $2,100,000 to $5,350,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
This attractive 19-story residential condominium building at 111 Central Park North on the northwest corner of Lenox Avenue has 48 apartments.

It was designed by Hillier Architecture and SCLE Architects and developed by the Athena Group, which is headed by Louis M. Dubin, whose other projects have included 838 Fifth Avenue and 32 West 64th Street, both in Manhattan, and The (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at 111 Central Park North


Element
555 West 59th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Lincoln Center
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $895,000 to $1,950,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
Element, located at 555 West 59th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and West End Avenue, is a 33-story, all-glass residential condominium building with 198 units. It was completed in 2007.

It is in the midst of cluster of new residential towers most of which were erected at about the same time. The others include such projects as 10 West End Avenue, the (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at Element 555 West 59th Street


Trump Place at 200 Riverside
200 Riverside Boulevard


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Riverside Dr./West End Ave.
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,400,000 to $3,590,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
This handsome, 46-story condominium apartment tower was completed in 1999 as one of the major buildings in Donald Trump's enormous redevelopment, known as Trump Place, of the former rail yards at the south end of Riverside Park.

Designed by Philip Johnson, it has 377 apartments.

The tower rises at the north end of its large base. The slightly taller tower just (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at Trump Place at 200 Riverside 200 Riverside Boulevard


The Olcott
27 West 72nd Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Central Park West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $2,450,000 to $11,400,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This handsome, 16-story, mid-block, pre-war apartment building was erected in 1925 and 99 of its 102 rental apartments were converted to condominiums in 2005 by Brack Capital, of which Mose Dan-Azougi is a principal, and Stellar Management of which Laurence Gluck is a principal.

They had purchased the building for about $70 million in 2004 from the Slutsky and (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at The Olcott 27 West 72nd Street


The Park Imperial
230 West 56th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $3,295,000 to $11,995,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 4
This handsome, mixed-use tower was completed in 2002 and features the headquarters of Random House, the publishing company, and 111 condominium apartments on the top 23 floors.

The building maintains that it is 70 stories tall and that apartments begin on the 48th floor but like some other mixed-use towers in midtown it tends to use a complex formula for (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at The Park Imperial 230 West 56th Street


The Knickerbocker
308 East 72nd Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Lenox Hill
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,800,000 to $1,800,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
This 21-story, red-brick building was erected as a condominium in 1996 and has 75 apartments.

It has a three-story limestone base with rusticated keystones and very nice air-conditioner grills on the third-story that unfortunately are not used for the other floors.

The building, which has one setback terrace, has a revolving door entrance beneath a large marquee that leads to a double-height (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at The Knickerbocker 308 East 72nd Street


The Hubert
7 Hubert Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Tribeca
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $6,850,000 to $6,850,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
This very handsome, 16-story condominium building was erected in 2003 and has 33 apartments.

It is perhaps the nicest "Post-Modern" structure built in the city, because it applies the large industrial building style of the 1920s and 1930s in the city to a new residential project and does so with a fine sense of proportion and good materials. It pays good (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at The Hubert 7 Hubert Street


The Grand Millennium
1965 Broadway


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Lincoln Center
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $2,785,000 to $2,785,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
Occupying a prime corner in the Lincoln Center district, this attractive, 32-story mixed-use building was developed by Christopher M. Jeffries, Philip E. Aarons and Philip H. Lovett and was designed by Gary Handel & Associates and Schuman Lichtenstein Claman & Efron. The developers are known as Millennium Partners and developed two other major residential and retail towers at Lincoln Square.

Several (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at The Grand Millennium 1965 Broadway


Liberty Lofts
43 West 64th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Lincoln Center
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $2,200,000 to $2,200,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
This attractive condominium project is a residential expansion of the former Liberty Storage Warehouse that for about a century sported a 37-foot-high, copper statue closely modeled on the Statue of Liberty.

Although the warehouse was in mid-block its statue atop the center of its roofline on the sidestreet was visible from the plaza at the Lincoln Center for the (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at Liberty Lofts 43 West 64th Street


The American Thread Building
260 West Broadway


  • Location
    Downtown / Tribeca
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $7,900,000 to $7,900,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
One of the first conversions of a large commercial building in TriBeCa to luxury loft apartments, the American Thread Building at 260 West Broadway is a very handsome structure with a curved frontage and an imposing staircase entrance with two-story high columns and an attractive cast-iron gate.

It was erected in 1893 as the Wool Exchange Building and converted to a (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at The American Thread Building 260 West Broadway


Sky House
11 East 29th Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Flatiron/Union Square
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This soaring, 55-story, red-brick, tower at 11 East 29th Street used air rights from the charming adjacent Church of the Transfiguration, known familiarly as the Little Church Around The Corner at 1 East 29th Street.

It was developed by The Clarett Group and was designed by FXFowle. It was completed in 2008.

The building has two setbacks on its north side (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at Sky House 11 East 29th Street


Central Park Place
301 West 57th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
Very vigorous in its modeling and prominent, this 55-story, pale green giant is one of the city's stellar residential skyscrapers.

It is one of the few aluminum-clad towers in the city. Whereas some of the others are office buildings with patterned panels, this tower's "skin" is plain and its color does not belie its metallic nature. The color, in fact, is (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at Central Park Place 301 West 57th Street


80th at Madison
45 East 80th Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Carnegie Hill
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This clean-looking, modern, 28-story tower was completed in 1987 and was an interesting new wrinkle on the typical Manhattan "luxury" high-rise tower.

Like Citicorp Center, it has a rakish slant to its top, in this instance facing towards Central Park a block away.

One of its handsomest virtues is its limestone façade. While the truly elegant pre-war buildings were customarily (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at 80th at Madison 45 East 80th Street


176 Perry Street


  • Location
    Downtown / West Village
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
Completed in 2002, this is the narrower of two very similar towers that set a new design standard for mid-rise residential buildings in Manhattan.

Designed by Richard Meier, one of the "New York Five" architects who came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970's for their adoption of the clean and bright lines of Le Corbusier, these "mini" "twins" (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at 176 Perry Street


Vetro
107 East 31st Street


  • Location
    Upper East Side / Midtown East
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
The Vetro is a 15-unit residential condominium building at 107 East 31st Street between Park and Lexington Avenues.

It was expanded from a 5-story commercial building to 9 stories and has a glass façade with Juliet balconies. Apartments in the rear of the building have traditional balconies.

The building has a concierge service, a roof deck, video intercom and a keyed (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at Vetro 107 East 31st Street


101 Warren Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Tribeca
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This impressive, full-block residential project in TriBeCa has 227 condominium apartments and 132 rental apartments. The entire project is known as 270 Greenwich Street but the condominium section is known as 101 Warren Street.

About 180 of the condominiums are in a 35-story tower at the corner of West and Warren Streets. The rest of this project’s condominiums are in (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at 101 Warren Street


1 York Street


  • Location
    Downtown / Tribeca
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
In 2005, the Museum of the City of New York had an exhibition on TEN Arquitectos, a well-known Mexican architectural firm headed by Enrique Norten, and three of its new projects in New York City of which this building was one.

The other two projects were a new Brooklyn Public Library for the Visual and Performing Arts, and Harlem Park, a (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at 1 York Street